Posted on 09/05/2017 6:26:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The writer has a point. If the entire ocean were covered with ice, hurricans wouldn’t form.
This snake oil salesman should have waited for Irma. The real deal monster cane.
Irma could make a sharp right turn and head for London.
To some extent, humans do bear responsibility for this. You can’t build a major city on a swamp and expect it to not flood. I’m a native Houstonian and I’ve seen bungalows near where I grew up bulldozed to make room for tract mansions with close to zero lot lines. This has been happening for decades. The water runs off the roof to the storm drains — the water can’t soak, it just piles into the overworked drainage system. Also, the city is slowing sinking due to the stress on the aquifers. I know the Harvey rainfall was an extraordinary event, but flooding in Houston has become much more commonplace.
Ahhhh, Ben. I doubt you not but...I am having some difficulty in determining if you have insulted my intelligence in your reply.
Next, You have neglected to address the follow-up question appearing immediately after the one you quoted back to me: “And, that it was caused by (the dubious concept of) Global Warming (AKA: CACA, see tagline).”
The author indicates the ^direct^ causality of CACA with any GOM water-level rise. I’d like to see the evidence accompanied by the scientifically-arrived conclusion.
Man Made Global Warming!?!
The average temperature drop in the path of totality in the last US solar eclipse was 10F. Obviously, the moon controls the climate.
In addition to everything you said, the solution to “climate change” involves billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars being paid every year into some dodgy United Nations fund. “Climate change” problems will then be fully solved.
It is incumbent on you to do the research to show other wise.
The original work has been duplicated many times, so they don't really care if an anonymous guy called Cletus understands or agrees
:: It is incumbent on you to do the research to show other wise. ::
No. it is not - you clearly give the liberal/communist position. Your statement above is EXACTLY why liberal journalists say such things. They don’t provide truth behind their conclusive statements, they simply expect the reader to believe that their statement is proven fact (see also, Josef Goebbels)
When some one makes an assertion in an effort to convey what might/might-not be a scientific fact (such as “sea levels have risen due to anthropogenic climate alterations”) it is ^incumbant^ on the one who makes that statement to provide, at minimum, basic scientific information that confirms their statement.
Take Ol’ Cletus for example: As a classically trained analytical scientist, all my results are subject to my convincing ^all of science^ that the conclusion (not the hypothesis) is defensible. I don’t just get to say, “polyethyldeath is safe for human ingestion; so let’s move to the next question.”
No, I gave no position, but I'm fixing to. But let me say that you have no common sense.
The author made two points and you jumped on the first one, which was the wrong one. Duhhhhhh
Houston didn't flood because of a storm surge because the storm came ashore in Rockport, and besides, Houston is 50 miles up the ship channel.
So the problem in Houston was rain and that problem is all over the US and the world. The increase water temp causes more evaporation and the increase air temp means the air can hold more water.
And there is another element to that process. Evaporating water absorbs heat from the surface, carries it aloft, and when it condenses, gives of the heat(energy) to the atmosphere, which adds more heat energy to the storm.
The problem is, rain bomb storms drowning people all over the world. Houston was minor compared to 1000s being killed in India and Bangladesh.
I too was trained in analytical chemistry in college. My first job was as an analytical chemist doing both instrumental analysis with a gas chromatograph and spectrophotometers, as well as wet chemistry at the bench.
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